Above the Fog

Claude Code vs OpenCode

Claude Code and OpenCode side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: Claude Code is 🚀 Rising with a hype score of 36 and OpenCode is 🚀 Rising with 28. The radar’s curated relations list them as competitors.

Data note: 7 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 22–Oct 28, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Nov 12.

At a glance

MeasureClaude CodeOpenCode
Stage🚀 Rising🚀 Rising
Hype score36.428.1
7-day change+29−8.5
In hype sinceOct 29, 2026Oct 28, 2026
Peak, 30 days56.9 on Oct 16, 202674.3 on Oct 19, 2026
Stories in 7 days62688
Share of voice, 7 days4.5%0.7%
Sources above normal3 of 192 of 20
Category🤖 Agents🤖 Agents

Hype score, last 30 days

Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, Claude Code is the solid line and OpenCode the dashed one.

DayClaude CodeOpenCode
Oct 29, 202636.428.1
Oct 28, 20263.525.1
Oct 27, 20262.714.5
Oct 26, 20261.413.3
Oct 25, 202601.8
Oct 24, 2026214
Oct 23, 20265.144.9
Oct 22, 20267.336.6
Oct 21, 202615.935
Oct 20, 202638.653.7
Oct 19, 202649.474.3
Oct 18, 202625.667.5
Oct 17, 20263959.7
Oct 16, 202656.925.5
Oct 15, 202654.855.7
Oct 14, 202652.625.6
Oct 13, 202628.320.6
Oct 12, 202674.5
Oct 11, 202610.42.5
Oct 10, 20262.60
Oct 9, 202617.38.9
Oct 8, 202618.212.5
Oct 7, 202620.311.4
Oct 6, 20268.412.1
Oct 5, 20266.225.9
Oct 4, 20269.90
Oct 3, 202610.10
Oct 2, 20261.61.6
Oct 1, 202610.73.1
Sep 30, 202621.71.8

Shared themes

What the stories of both topics in the last 7 days are about, as classified by the Jev model (a story can carry several themes):

Claude Code: stories behind it

  1. My Claude Code now calls my phone when it needs me. No Twilio, no phone number, free — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Oct 28 · score 377 · 74 comments
  2. Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model — Hacker News (gist.github.com) · Oct 29 · score 572 · 232 comments
  3. Claude Code’s $100/month plan — 73% of my weekly limit gone in 2 days — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Oct 28 · score 82 · 147 comments
  4. Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace — Hacker News (phorion.io) · Oct 30 · score 230 · 328 comments
  5. Asked Claude Code to find every secret on my laptop and it found 63 — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Oct 28 · score 109 · 45 comments

OpenCode: stories behind it

  1. Same DeepSeek model, Same harness but very different experience on Deepinfra and Opencode version — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 8 · 10 comments
  2. Qwen2.5-Coder 7B outputs tool calls as text in OpenCode — Reddit (r/ollama) · Oct 28 · score 0 · 3 comments
  3. I built do-it, a roadmap-driven workflow for Claude Code and OpenCode, and I've been dogfooding it on four or five large projects — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 2 comments
  4. Why Saying ‘Hi’ to Our OpenCode Agent Used 177,000 Tokens — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 2 comments
  5. Show HN: MCP bridge for chat between OpenCode and Claude Code sessions — Hacker News (github.com) · Oct 29 · score 2 · 0 comments

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